A Musical Salon for the 21st Century

Our Salastina "home" is an opulent, joyful place of beauty, splendor, and living tradition. By day, we’re world-class performers and studio musicians who’ve played on your favorite films. By night, we’re on a mission to broaden the definition of what classical music was, is, and can be.

Main Series No. 5: Schubert and the Pummel of Hummel

Friday, June 14, 2024 @ 8 PM - West LA
Saturday, June 15, 2024 @ 8 PM - Pasadena
Sunday, June 16, 2024 @ 3 PM - OC

If you love dead, white, male German composers as much as we do – and are not (yet!) familiar with the greatness of Johann Nepomuk Hummel – this concert exploring the arbitrariness of fame is for you.

In 1819, Hummel organized a concert to celebrate the world premiere performance of one of his works; for the occasion, Schubert wrote the Trout Quintet for the same combination of instruments. Guess which piece is all anyone remembers?

Salastina recreates this concert so that you can judge whether or not posterity was fair in jettisoning a composer with a name as awesome as “Nepomuk.”

What We Play

Classical, Contemporary, Baroque… if John Cage's infamous 4'33" counts as "Classical Music™," then what doesn't?! When it comes to programming, our guiding principle is simple: we gotta love it, and we gotta wanna share it.

Happy Hours

Music, mingling, mimosas, and munchies… oh my! Join us on Saturdays at 11 AM for intimate, casual salons for the 21st Century.

Vital Sounds

Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for the past three years, Salastina musicians and guest artists have provided private, virtual bedside concerts for patients in UCLA's ICU.

Sounds Promising

Sounds Promising is a tuition-free professional development program for composers between the ages of 18 and 30. We invite composers living anywhere to apply.

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